Dan Simmons’ Hyperion presents a rich novel of themes that resonate with a contempt society, inviting readers to reflect on issues of governance, technology, identity, and power dynamics. Throughout the first three chapters of Hyperion, we learn about an advanced galaxy of planets and societies that connect with our society. It’s uncanny how the novel’sContinue reading “Hyperions Capitalistic and Self-Isolating Society”
Category Archives: Projects Spring 2024
Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester, a D&D character creations.
Jane Eyre: When making Jane Erye into a Dnd character a lot of things struck me by surprise. The first thing was when I made her race a human (obviously) I wanted to change things up and make her into a variant human. The reason was the description for it was: Humans who are moreContinue reading “Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester, a D&D character creations.”
Sigmund Freud in Alice in Wonderland
Alexina Gillis Critical Theory Project One Sigmund Freud in Alice in Wonderland: Sigmund Freud has been the originator of many controversial theories, many have been disagreed upon for decades. One I would like to focus on is his theory of the uncanny. Freud defines the uncanny as something that is not familiar to us, thereforeContinue reading “Sigmund Freud in Alice in Wonderland”
Hamlet: Set Design
Leigh Rohe Prof Helms Brit Lit 03-15-2023 Hamlet: Set Design So, for my unessay project I decided to create a set design for if I was going to be the set designed for a production of Hamlet. So how this set would work is there would be a series of projections, probably around three orContinue reading “Hamlet: Set Design”
Franken-Erye
By: Alexa Strong For this project, I chose to do a digital drawing representing both Jane Eyre from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and the creature from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 1818 version (photos of said drawing inserted towards the end of this post). Isolation and loneliness are common themes strung deeply throughout the two books, soContinue reading “Franken-Erye”
Sigmund Freud’s Discoveries Depicted through Joe Goldberg
Ali Souza Austrian neurologist, Sigmund Freud, was the founder of psychoanalysis in the early nineteenth century. His discoveries about the unconscious mind and the uncanny are reputable facts that apply to humans within their day-to-day life; but how can these psychological concepts be depicted in literature? American novelist Caroline Kepnes published her psychological thriller YOUContinue reading “Sigmund Freud’s Discoveries Depicted through Joe Goldberg”
Intellectual Identity: Viewing Your Career Through Assemblage
Prof. Helms
Critical Theory
14 March 2024
The Illusion Of Justice
The Scooby Doo gang has always sought to bring justice to every town they have come across. Whether it was a Goo Lagoon monster, Frankenstein, the Black Knight, the Ghost of Captain Cutler, etc. The gang always pulls through, even in a pinch, to bring to justice the villains who are haunting their areas. HoweverContinue reading “The Illusion Of Justice”
Evangelion’s Dark Reflection of Freud
It is not a surprise to anyone that has seen Hideaki Anno’s Neon Genesis: Evangelion that the iconic Japanese anime is a collage of several key ideas that appear within literature, such as the psychoanalysis of its cast or how it reframes religion into the story. In fact, that is part of the reason thatContinue reading “Evangelion’s Dark Reflection of Freud”
Redefining Tropes Through Queer Theory
Queer Theory has often been described in critical views as studying gender and sexuality in people. It’s been the subject of studying queer people prominent in the LGBT+ community. Politics surely have a field day when discussing Queer Theory, but it’s also very prominently discussed in modern media forms of entertainment. Within the last tenContinue reading “Redefining Tropes Through Queer Theory”
Sprockets and Springes 